Blessings From Home

Deer in the headlights and other rambling

My husband caught this picture of Jacob last night, I call it his deer in the headlights look. lol. And ya gotta love his little curly top. He's the first of my children to have curly hair, at least for now. Baby's hair often changes. Mine as a baby went from black at birth to white blonde by 1 year old.

It's hard to believe Jacob is already 4 1/2 weeks old. How time flys! He's still a fussy baby and wants to be held when he's awake, but that is not very often as he sleeps so much. I've got a front pack carrier, and a sling to carry him around in when I have to get things done. As much as I don't want to have to carry him around very much, I know this time is fleeting, and I realize I really don't mind.

We're settling back into routine here, starting back on schoolwork with the kids. I'm working on my home management binder this week trying to tweak it to make it fit us a bit better. I would also like to add a few sections to it for different things such as a garden section, animals section, and a goals section.

I've been in a bit of panic mode this week because of the new law going into effect on February 10. I buy 95% of my children's clothes at thrift stores. And there's certainly no room in my budget to buy new clothes, even when on sale. I'm praying heavily that there is some change to the law, but that may not happen. So I'm working on what we'll do when this happens. A few things that I've realized is that we, especially my children have entirely too many clothes as it is. Thinking back to books, such as little house on the prairie, children generally had maybe 3-4 outfits altogether. Three to wear during the week, and one for their "Sunday go to meeting" outfit.

I think it would be a good idea to have some kind of program like freecycle only a clothing exchange for children's clothing where you can post if you have say, boys clothes, size 4 that you want to get rid of, and you're in need of boy's , size 5. Hopefully we will be able to do something to that effect.

Otherwise, I will likely be switching to making most of my children's clothes, and paring down the number of outfits they each have. I'm so thankful I have at least a general knowledge of sewing. The clothes I see in stores, even if I had the money to buy new, are so immodest and distasteful, I wouldn't want to anyways.

Today I will be doing school with the kids, working on my HMB, and doing some general cleaning and laundry. For dinner we're having a pot roast with some carrots and potatos, and some drop biscuits.

I pray your day is blessed!

sara

Deer in the headlights...lol

{ 08:13, Wednesday, January 7, 2009 } { Posted by Vickie }

What's going on with the law there? I know here we used to stock up on clothing at Goodwill stores when they would have their 50% off sales (usually twice a year) I was told the other day there that they will not be having them anymore!!!...That stinks!
Anyway, I was just curious.
Hope you have a great day enjoying those 4 beautiful children!

Beautiful Baby

{ 08:38, Wednesday, January 7, 2009 } { Posted by HopefulHeart77 }

He is beautiful! What is going on with the law. If you want you can PM me.
Thanks,

So Cute!

{ 08:50, Wednesday, January 7, 2009 } { Posted by rstewart8888 }

THIS IS A PHOTO YOU CAN USE LATER IN LIFE.FOR SURE.

~ He is Beautiful ~

{ 09:58, Wednesday, January 7, 2009 } { Posted by Indigo }

And I've been reading the links you posted as well - really very scary. It does seem like some underhanded scheme to keep people pouring money into the retail business :-(